Theodore Ringwalt Hartley was born on November 6,1924 and is a US Navy fighter pilot, investment banker, actor, film producer, and is currently CEO of RKO Pictures.
13 Facts About Ted Hartley
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Ted Hartley was married to heiress, actress and philanthropist Dina Merrill until her death in 2017.
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Ted Hartley's last acting credit was 2012 and his last producing credit was in 2015.
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Ted Hartley was born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised on a farm in Iowa.
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Ted Hartley's father died when he was 5, causing financial hardships for the family.
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Ted Hartley attended Shattuck Military School in Minnesota, and by the age of 16 he had won an appointment to the US Naval Academy.
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Ted Hartley was thrown from the jet, suffered a broken back, and was medically retired from the Navy.
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Ted Hartley had featured roles in films with Cary Grant, Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood, and then in the late 1970s was cast in his own series, ABC's Chopper One, about helicopter flying police officers.
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The series was short lived, and thereafter Ted Hartley moved to Aspen, Colorado, where he volunteered as the Managing Artistic Director of the local theater, and then turned to commodity trading full-time.
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Ted Hartley produced a remake of Mighty Joe Young with Disney, Ritual with Miramax, a remake of The Magnificent Ambersons, and Shade.
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Ted Hartley belongs to a number of motion picture and television guilds and associations, is a board member of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute, and serves as director of the Harvard Business School Association of Southern California.
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Ted Hartley is a frequent lecturer and is published periodically in business journals.
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Ted Hartley is a published poet as well as a creator of stories for the screen.